SETI Institute Colloquium Series Videos
A weekly colloquium of science lectures at the SETI Institute
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- http://seti-lectures.blogspot.com/
- Description
- These videos are recorded at the SETI Institute.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-09-14 03:52
- last episode published
- 2009-03-11 23:52
- publication frequency
- 1.31 days
- Contributors
- Will Backman
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- Number of Episodes
- 17
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| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2009-03-11 | Ross A. Beyer, SETI Institute and NASA AmesGoogle, Inc., has released Google Earth 5.0 which contains a Mars 3D mode. Working with engineers at Google, we helped collect, parse, and organize the vast store of Mars geospatial data available to the publ... |
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| 2009-02-27 |
02/25/2009 - Interstellar and Early Solar System Organics in Samples from Comet Wild 2 Scott Sandford, NASA Ames Space Science DivisionThe Stardust mission successfully returned samples from Comet Wild 2 in 2006. Studies of these samples have confirmed the presence of organics, some of which appear to be similar to those found in meteor... |
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| 2009-02-27 |
02/18/2009 - Multiple Asteroid Systems: New Techniques to Study New Worlds Franck Marchis, UC Berkeley and the SETI InstituteSince the discovery of Ida’s companion Dactyl in 1993, the number of known multiple asteroids has been continuously increasing and ~165 of them are now known. Since 2003, Dr. Marchis and his colleagues ... |
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| 2009-02-27 | Dr. Jack Lissauer, Space Sciences Division, NASA Ames Research CenterThe observed properties of giant planets, models of their evolution, and observations of protoplanetary disks all provide constraints on the formation of gas giant planets. The four ... |
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| 2009-02-25 |
01/28/2009 - Surface modifications by winds on Earth, Mars, Venus, and Titan Ron Greeley, Regent's Professor, Arizona State UniversityWindblown dunes, ripples, and erosional features are seen on Earth, Venus, and Titan, while on Mars these features are ubiquitous and reflect the dominant agent of surface modification. Although ... |
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| 2009-02-25 |
11/05/2008 - The Allen Telescope Array: A Radio Survey Telescope for the 21st Century Don Backer and Jill TarterJill Tarter will talk about the large survey SETI observing programs to be undertaken by our in-house team over the next decade, the SETI observing projects from external proposers that have been allocated array time during th... |
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| 2009-02-25 |
10/22/2008 - MIPSGAL: MIPS/Spitzer Survey of the Galactic Plane Dr. Sachindev ShenoyMIPSGAL is a survey of the Galactic plane at 24 and 70 microns using Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) Space Telescope. This is one of the most sensitive survey in the mid-infrared of our Galactic plane. In this talk, ... |
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| 2009-02-25 | Prof. Roger Blandford, Stanford Linear Accelerator and Physics, Stanford UniversityBlack holes are popularly associated with death and destruction (excluding romances dealing with the redemptive properties of wormholes). However, their conventional ast... |
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| 2009-02-18 | JoAnne Hewett,Professor at SLAC, Stanford UniversityExtra dimensions of space may be present in our universe. Their discovery would dramatically change our view of the cosmos and would prompt many questions. How do they hide? What is their shape? How m... |
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| 2009-02-18 | Dr. Jeffrey Van Cleve, Ball Aerospace& Technologies CorpThe Kepler Missionhttp://www.kepler.arc.nasa.gov is designed to detect transits of Earth-size planets orbiting in the "habitable zone" (HZ) around main-sequence stars of apparent visual magnit... |
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